# Reinstate Staff Category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/reinstate-staff-category/52232>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [October 30, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reinstate-staff-category/52232 "2016-10-30T14:45:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![lxk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@lxk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lxk)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reinstate-staff-category/52232/1 "2016-10-30T14:45:10Z")

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Short and silly, our staff category was deleted a while ago, is there any (non backup) way to restore this or manually re-create? Can I squeeze the tables back in from a vanilla backup?

The automated nginx reports have nowhere to post now…

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